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Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger to Arrive in April

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the one-bad-kitty dept.

Silly Burrito writes "Think Secret is reporting that Tiger will be out in April with an event on April 1st and it should be out in stores by April 15th. If this is true, I can finally get both the Mini and a new Powerbook, as I've been waiting for Tiger to be released before I do so. Let's just hope that this isn't a bad April Fools Joke!"

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  1. Fact??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why is this being taken as fact? Do the editors believe Think Secret to be a reputable news source that knows the exact release date for a given product? Has this information been confirmed by the vendor itself?

    No. It's a rumor. Don't state it as fact - it pisses me off. The headline is not just misleading, it could be entirely misinformation.

    Remove head from ass, then post.

    1. Re:Fact??? by carlfish · · Score: 4, Insightful

      This being the same ThinkSecret that reported as fact that the iPod mini was going to be updated with a colour screen on February 24th?

      Or that the flash-based iPod would feature a screen that was as wide as the iPod mini, but a few lines shorter.

      Or that a 2Gb iPod mini would cost around US$100.

      And a lot more can be found perusing the archives.

      Mostly, ThinkSecret gets its reputation from confirmation bias. You remember the hits more significantly than the misses, so it feels far more accurate than it really is. In fact, while they're good at reporting rumours that everyone else knows - like the fact the mini was in the works - or things that can be easily verified - like the contents of the latest Tiger developer seed, or the obvious conclusion from Apple buying up heaps of flash memory - their exclusive scoops from "insider sources" are very hit and miss.

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  2. April 1st by AnotherJake · · Score: 5, Insightful

    April 1st is the beginning of Apple's fiscal year, so that wouldn't be a surprising release date.

  3. Re:Hang on... by throughthewire · · Score: 4, Insightful
    using trade secret law to trump the free speech rights of independent journalists...

    Why should free speech trump the rights of an individual or a company to use a contract to keep information private?

  4. Re:Don't buy Apple by computerme · · Score: 5, Insightful

    oh please. some dude with a blog spouting off what his cat did today does not a journalist make....

    nick at think secret is a rumor monger. not a jounralist.

    please don't lump this case in the same class as the Pentagon Papers. You perform a diservice to real journalists and all our rights when you do..

  5. Re:Hang on... by zieroh · · Score: 5, Insightful

    so many loyal slashdotters were welcoming Apple's victory against journalism?

    If you had actually read any of the articles or bothered to spend 10 minutes informing yourself on the topic, you would realize that in fact Apple had not scored a "victory against journalism", but instead had won the right to subpeona records in order to determine how information was illegally obtained.

    The judge stated, quite rationally, that it didn't matter if the bloggers at the center of the case were journalists or not, for even journalists lack the right to publish trade secrets that do not benefit the public interest. More to the point, the judge stated that interest by the public is not the same as public interest.

    So if you want to go on being misinformed, then please be my guest and don't read the articles. But at least have the decency to do so quietly and not spread FUD around the internets.

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  6. /. QA by BibelBiber · · Score: 4, Insightful
    I miss that Slashdot quality assurance thing that used to be. I mean editors seem to publish more and more unuseful things over the time. I think /. readers should not need to read all those rumors. There is enough ThinkSecret, AppleInsider and so on to look for this kind of information. What's wrong here anyway? BTW, thanks for modding me down. I am actually a Mac user and I love both, Mac and /. I just don't like recent steps taken by both.

    Thanks for reading. You can now turn off your computer.

  7. Re:Why does Slashdot promote OSX so much? by Moofie · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Who is this "we"? Some of us don't have any issue at all with proprietary software, particularly when that software is superior to other alternatives. In my opinion, that's the case with OSX. Nothing else compares.

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  8. Re:The question is: by NutscrapeSucks · · Score: 4, Insightful

    One issue with the security updates is that Apple has not made it clear how long the official support window is. The updates to 10.1 just stopped one day.

    With 10.4 coming out, it's not clear if Apple will want to EOL 10.2, even though there's apparently a substantial userbase still on it. My hope is that Apple makes a formal statement saying how long 10.2 users can expect to recieve security patches.

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  9. Re:The question is: by PaxTech · · Score: 4, Insightful
    In all fairness, you should be comparing OS X to Windows XP Pro, not Home. OS X 10.3 is what you get on the most powerful workstation Apple makes, so it should be compared pricewise to the most powerful workstation Windows OS, not the stripped down toy "Home" version Microsoft sells.

    Win XP Pro Upgrade is currently $179.99 at Amazon.

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